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Aiming to clear the smokescreen clouding U.S. healthcare pricing, UC Hastings' Jaime S. King and Anne Marie Helm launched a new grant-funded website in June — The Source for Competitive Healthcare — to cover news and analysis about healthcare costs and competition.
King, executive editor, and Helm, managing editor, designed The Source (http://competitivehealthcare.org/) to be "a one-stop shop, whether you're a journalist, lawyer, physician or policy person, or just someone interested in the issues; the idea is it's all there."
King began to see the need for such a website two years ago while helping UC San Francisco researchers look into why price transparency in healthcare seems to be an oxymoron.
"People would tell them, 'I'm prohibited by our contract from giving you that pricing information,' or 'This is a trade secret and I can't answer that question,'" said King, also associate director of Source sponsor, the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy.
She witnessed healthcare researchers, health economists, and lawyers unable to grasp the issues or mount a legal challenge to stonewalling, because they didn't know what their colleagues in other disciplines knew. King sensed a unique niche for an information source that she, with a law degree and a Harvard University PhD in health policy and ethics, might be uniquely qualified to help fill.
King and Helm, former law school classmates at Emory University, plan to gather in one place the resources needed to address the barriers to healthcare price transparency. Even more importantly, they want to blow up the silos trapping and dividing the lawyers, physicians, health services researchers, journalists, and health economics and policy experts examining healthcare costs.
To do that, they'll aggregate relevant up-to-date news and academic articles, policy papers, litigation documents, and legislative and regulatory materials, and equally as important, analyze many of them.
King will oversee all Source efforts and write analyses of health policy articles. Helm, a senior fellow at the consortium who spent eight years litigating at firms in New York City and Washington, DC, will manage day-to-day Source activities, and also track and analyze specific court cases.
Helm also plans to help nonlawyers by, for example, suggesting which documents from a litigation docket are the most important. "There might be a hundred documents on a particular case and you may only need five to get a robust understanding of it," she said.
Their research assistant, Cameron Halling, is a rising 3L at UC Hastings and a budding health law enthusiast. Among other things, he has written blog posts and compiled each state's healthcare laws and regulations for the site's interactive map. Impressed by the site's growing breadth of information, Halling said, "It's bringing it all into one place and making it accessible to everyone."
To save Source users time, King and Helm will offer a monthly hit parade, must-read articles and reports they believe break new ground. "We're trying to make the website a short cut, so you don't have to read all the sources we do," said Helm. For another short cut, follow the Source on Twitter via @thesourceeditor.
Down the road, The Source may host workshops or conferences, says King, but first she and Helm want to see more analysis on the site, as much as possible from guest writers. "I want the Source to bring people from different disciplines — who are thinking a lot about this problem and working on it — together to try and solve it," said King.


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As comical as it was, that mower was producing 109hp, and had a 0-60 time of four seconds, all while retaining the ability to cut the grass and corners.
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CLEMSON – Vic Beasley realizes what he's chasing and what he's earned.
The Clemson junior defensive end entered the fall of 2013 with much promise, and has fulfilled all of it with nine sacks (the national leader) and a few game-changing plays the past two weeks against Syracuse and Boston College. Beasley earned his third ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week honor Monday, the latest in a line of accolades for someone who might be in his final few months in orange and white.
"Yeah, I have given some thought to it," Beasley said Monday. "But I'll just wait until the end of the season to decide if I'm going to leave or if I'm not. Just focusing on the year right now."
ESPN NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. has rated Beasley the eighth-hottest prospect in the 2014 crop at any position. Underclassmen who have spent three years in college can apply for draft grades after the season, and must declare their intent to leave or return by February.
Wide receiver Sammy Watkins has long been considered a candidate to enter the 2014 NFL Draft with one year of eligibility remaining, the way DeAndre Hopkins did. But Beasley has soared onto the radar as an elite pass-rusher.
"Yeah, this all came real fast," Beasley said. "My years at Clemson have flown by. It's just been a great experience for me. If I do decide to leave, I'm going to leave a legacy here. There's going to be a lot of memories."
At 6-3 and 235 pounds, Beasley figures he won't be on the front line as a professional. Kiper tabbed Beasley as suited for a 3-4 defense, and Beasley agrees.
"My endurance can be a lot better. I feel like I'm going to be the type of guy that's an outside linebacker if I do go to the next level, just being able to run down plays from the back side, to stand out somehow," Beasley said.
But with his concentration still solely on the current year, Beasley is eyeing the Tigers' program single-season record of 16 sacks, set by Keith Adams in 1999. He's seven sacks away, with at least seven games remaining, so he's ahead of the pace.
"That's my goal," Beasley said. "It was kind of a goal at the beginning of the year, but seeing how I've progressed, it's pretty close, so it's become more of a goal."
With one last day to wrap up analysis of the Tigers' sloppy 24-14 win over Boston College, offensive coordinator Chad Morris expressed his displeasure at the fumbles, missed field goals and failed red zone chances which precluded Clemson from doing more with their 496 total yards.
"This is not our style. When we're on the field, we're on the field to go score points," Morris said. "I don't care if we get 100 yards or 700 yards, we gotta put the ball in the end zone."
The tone was set when Clemson went 12 plays on the opening drive, only to stall on the goal line and watch sure-footed kicker Chandler Catanzaro whiff on a 25-yard field goal attempt.
"There's a lot more room for improvement. We had a few missed deep balls and stuff like that," wide receiver Adam Humphries said. "If we'd get that down pat, we could be throwing up crazy numbers on offense. But we can't hold our heads down. We've just got to correct it and improve from there."
Quarterback Tajh Boyd fumbled twice Saturday, and tailbacks Roderick McDowell and Zac Brooks each coughed one up to the Eagles.
"It's just something we haven't done. We haven't turned the ball over. Those are things we just don't do," Morris said. "Uncharacteristic of us to do that last week, and we let them hang around. The more they hang around, the more momentum they get.
"It'll definitely get some guys' attention in a hurry."
There's only so many straight faces the Tigers can feign when addressing No. 5 Florida State as just another opponent on the schedule.
While Clemson's coaches preach a consistent midweek effort on the practice field regardless of the matchup, they won't try to stop the players from enjoying the hype without getting sucked into it.
"Hey, it's on. This is what it's about. It's what you coach for," Morris said. "As a kid, this is what you grow up as a kid playing to be in a top-five matchup. There's not many opportunities you have in a coaching career that you get this moment. Same way from a playing standpoint. Heck yeah, it is a big deal. Our guys are excited about this opportunity to be on a big stage again, the second time this year we've been on a stage of his magnitude.
"I'm jacked up right now. I'm ready. Heck, yeah," Morris said. "But that's my personality. I was excited last week. This is just another opportunity for us to get better, going against a great opponent."
Follow Aaron Brenner's Clemson coverage on Twitter at @Aaron_Brenner


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Snow! School! Cheese! Lyme Disease!
Hello! It's been awhile. I've been busy.
This is what is going on outside my bedroom window right now...
That's right! An April blizzard. Whatever, Minnesota. I'm supposed to be on spring break, enjoying robins and tulips and bike rides and picnics. Alas, instead I am shivering away, enduring the sixth month of winter we Minnesotans have had this season. I hope the weather decides to warm up before I have to go back to school at the end of this month! I want to enjoy a few free days in the sun...
I just finished my second trimester of classes toward a Masters of Oriental Medicine. Two trimesters down, seven to go! Since September last year, my life has been a whirlwind of large books, flashcards, Chinese words, and remembering the ins and outs of pattern diagnoses like "turbid phlegm harassing the upper body" and "wind cold with pre-existing cold rheum".
I feel blessed for having the opportunity to be in school. The program is challenging and exciting, and everyday is an affirmation that I am on the right path. It's exciting to make connections between my own health experiences over the last five years with what I'm learning in class. I love thinking about the type of practitioner that I want to be and working toward that goal. When school starts again in a couple weeks we start our first classes in Chinese herbs and needling techniques, and get deeper into diagnostic practices and treatment strategy. Exciting!
In addition to absolutely loving it, I am proud to say I am rocking a 4.0. And not only that, I recently received a scholarship based on my academic achievement, leadership experience as president of our campus LGBTQ organization, and my volunteer work experience with a local clinic that supports transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.
I've found it challenging to find the balance of school, work, volunteering, self-care, relationship, and friendship. It's been harder than I thought it would be, honestly. I figured it would come naturally to me, that I would easily slide into this new lifestyle pattern and still find the time to cook and take care of myself and have a healthy social life. Wrong! It's been hard. One of those things they never tell you when you decide to go back to grad school.
Culinary endeavors have taken a particularly large hit. My income as a student is drastically reduced compared to the past (I worked for Target's advertising department for eight years). While much of my former income was spent on medical expenses, I know I was also wasteful with money and was not always aware of the privelege that income afforded me. It's been a really good reality check, honestly. Living off loans and part-time work means I no longer have room in my budget to regularly buy large amounts of food and expensive specialty items for baking and cooking experiments. I'm having to take a much different approach to preparing and sharing food, and I think it will ultimately benefit my readers and my future clients. I mean, who wants to take advice from someone who makes suggestions that you can't afford to follow? Food accessibility is a huge issue, and this is especially true for individuals who need to follow specialized diets based on health conditions. I look forward to developing and sharing new recipes that are both nourishing and more affordable than recipes from my past. For example, I was looking at a past recipe and I saw that I used over 1 cup of maple syrup. I gasped, thinking I would never consider using that much maple syrup right now, because there is no way I could afford it. Like I said, REALITY CHECK!
I also have exciting news to follow about my job. I am a proud cheesemaker for Punk Rawk Labs, a Minneapolis-based company that makes organic vegan cheeses from cashews and macadamia nuts. These cheeses are fermented, live, raw wheels of whole food goodness that you will LOVE. It is creamy and buttery, ranging from a texture similar to fresh chevre or brie (cashew cheese) to something more like ricotta (macadamia cheese). It is great with crackers, and can also be used in many ways in recipes. Working for Punk Rawk Labs probably ranks in my top three job experiences in terms of overall satisfaction. We workers are treated so well by the owners, and I feel awesome about making a product that I believe in. The cashews we use are so amazing, purchased from Equal Exchange from an organic cashew farm in El Salvador called Aprainores (here's a great blog post about the farm). These are the best cashews I have ever eaten, hands down, and are even more delicious because they are sourced responsibly!
One of the perks of the job is constant snacking. We often have small, extra wheels that aren't large enough for sale or wheels that aren't quite as pretty as they should be, and these wheels are perfect for employee snackies. Here's a photo of a particularly impressive snack spread from a couple of weeks ago.
I definitely recommend you look up the Punk Rawk Labs website and find a place in your neck of the woods that sells our product. You will love it! The cheese is pricy, but if you have the chance to splurge on a wheel I am sure you'll be satisfied.
And, as a bit of eye candy...
Here's a photo of an amazing dessert I made for my dad's birthday back in February. Flourless chocolate torte with chili-pepper infused ganache, garnished with candied chili peppers. Yeah.
I have been cooking and baking as often as I can, but simply haven't had the time or desire to sit down and blog about it. My brain has been so full of school stuff! But truly, I am hoping to get some of these things blogged soon, cuz they are too good not to share. Nut-free granola, fudgy chocolate browneis, tasty bean dishes, curries, and on and on. My sweetie and I have been making the best gluten-free pancakes for months now. And I've been juicing up a storm.
Healthwise, I've been doing okay. The chronic Lyme Disease I've been fighting for what feels like an eternity went into remission last summer, and I felt amazing when I started school last fall. But, as chronic Lyme Disease often does, the infection became active once again and I relapsed. In January and February, my body started being ravaged by strange symptoms I was trying to deny. Dizzness, visual disturbances, swelling hands, severe body pain, brain fog, night sweats, insomnia, waking in the middle of the night, extreme mood swings, digestive issues, sudden rashes, the list goes on. After getting blood work done, which confirmed the presence of an active Lyme infection, I finally conceded and started treating again. I am working with my naturopath and physician once again, and have started taking antibiotics (Omnicef and Zithromax) in combination with botanical medicines (teasel root tincture, Nutramedix Samento, Enula, and Banderol, and Byron White A-Bab, A-Bart, and A-L Complex). My body is capable of handling really large amount of "killer" medicines at once, so I'm hitting it hard in the hope of killing it off and getting back into a remission state once again. Fingers crossed! I already feel a lot better after the last month of treatment, and have a lot of hope.
Eventually, I hope to write more about my Lyme protocol over the years. It is something I talk a lot about in person with people, but haven't focused on as much as I hoped on the blog.
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In summer 2011, I started using two pairs of Swedish goggles (Speedo Swedish 2-pack) – one with dark metallized lenses for daytime, one with clear lenses for mornings, evenings, & night. As per usual, I eschewed the included latex straps for after-market bungee straps.
It's a testament to Swedes' durability that I'm still using these same goggles almost two years later.
Notice something else about the above photo, though: The color of the straps. Two years ago, these straps were the same color. Remember, the top pair I wear during the day, in bright sunlight. The bottom pair I wear in low light.
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For the March-April 2001 issue of Humanities magazine, NEH Chairman William R. Ferris spoke with Miller about morality and the public role of the artist.
William R. Ferris: I'd like to begin with Death of a Salesman. In the play Willie Loman's wife says, "He's not the finest character that ever lived, but he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him, so attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog." What kind of attention do you mean?
Arthur Miller: I suppose she was speaking about the care and support that his family might give him, in that context. Of course, there is a larger context, which is social and even political-that a lot of people give a lot of their lives to a company or even the government, and when they are no longer needed, when they are used up, they're tossed aside. I guess that would encompass it.
Ferris: When Death of a Salesman opened in 1949, Brooks Atkinson wrote in his New York Times review that you had written a superb drama. He went on to say, "Mr. Miller has no moral precepts to offer and no solutions of the salesman's problems. He is full of pity, but he brings no piety to it." Is there more of a moral message in Salesman than Atkinson saw there?
Miller: It depends on your vantage point. Willie Loman's situation is even more common now than it was then. A lot of people are eliminated earlier from the productive life in this society than they used to be. I've gotten a number of letters from people who were in pretty good positions at one point or another and then were just peremptorily discarded. If you want to call that a moral area, which I think it is, then he was wrong. What I think he was referring to was that the focus of the play is the humanity of these people rather than coming at them from some a priori political position. I think that is true.
Ferris: So many of your best plays, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Crucible, besides being personal tragedies, are also a commentary on society, similar to Ibsen's work. Do you feel one person's story can transcend itself and speak to all of us?
Miller: I think it depends primarily on the writer's orientation. There is a lot of work being done today which is very sharp, but there doesn't seem to be a moral dimension to them. In other words, they are not looking out beyond the personal story. That is a difficult thing to trace in a work. I suppose if you took Moby-Dick, he could have written that as an adventure story about a whale and hunting it. Instead it became a parable involving man's fate and his struggle for power, over God even. The intensification of a work generally leads in the direction of society if it is indeed intense enough.
Ferris: How do you take daily life and turn it into the stuff of art?
Miller: Well, that's the secret.
Ferris: You're not talking.
Miller: I really don't know the answer to that. It is part of temperament. It is a part of a vision which is only definable through the work of art. You can't start analyzing it into its parts because it falls to pieces.
Ferris: Then what do you think are the core issues that a playwright should deal with?
Miller: There is no prescription that I know of, period. Whatever he feels intensely about and knows a lot about is the core issue for him. If he feels sufficiently about it and is well informed enough about it, factually and psychologically, emotionally, then that's the core issue. You make an issue. The issue isn't there, just lying around waiting to be picked up off the sidewalk. It is what the author is intense about in his life.
Ferris: Would you say there is a process of playwriting that's been a constant since Greek drama, or has this process changed over time?
Miller: You know, the Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story--and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.
Ferris: When you wrote Death of a Salesman, how were you trying to take drama and make it new, as Ezra Pound said?
Miller: That play is several inventions which have been pilfered over the years by other writers. It is new in the sense that, first of all, there is very little or no waste. The play begins with its action, and there are no transitions. It is a kind of frontal attack on the conditions of this man's life, without any piddling around with techniques. The basic technique is very straightforward. It is told like a dream. In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another. In Salesman, there is the use of a past in the present. It has been mistakenly called flashbacks, but there are no flashbacks in that play. It is a concurrence of a past with the present, and that's a bit different.
There are numerous other innovations in the play, which were the result of long years of playwriting before that and a dissatisfaction with the way stories were told up to that point.
Ferris: In your recent article in Harper's Magazine, you write about a colorful script doctor called Saul Burry who used to hold court at Whelan's drugstore in New York City. You say that he advised one writer, "You've got too much story. Slow it down. Examine your consequences more. We're in the theater to hear our own hearts beat with brand-new knowledge, not to get surprised by some stupid door slowly opening." Is that Saul Burry or Arthur Miller talking?
Miller: That was Burry. Burry was a very insightful person. He was the best critic I ever encountered, and he was perfectly capable of talking like that. In fact, I wish I could remember more of what he said, but it's so long ago that a lot of it's just slipped away. He had a marvelous way of encapsulating ideas that had to do with playwriting and the theater.
Ferris: What does Saul Burry's advice mean for the audience?
Miller: Pay for the ticket and arrive on time, and nowadays, not to have a cell phone go off. He expected the audience to cooperate and to appreciate what was in front of him as best he could. He also, I would have thought, probably wanted them to educate themselves so that they were less inclined toward what was specious and stupid.
Ferris: In many of your plays, from Willie and Biff, Joe and Chris Keller, to Victor Frank and his father's memory in The Price, fathers and sons are a theme. You grew up during the Depression and you've said that you witnessed a lot of grown men lose themselves when they lost their jobs. You've also said your relationship with your own father was "like two searchlights on different islands." How has what you saw during the Depression influenced your work?
Miller: Fundamentally, it left me with the feeling that the economic system is subject to instant collapse at any particular moment--I still think so--and that security is an illusion which some people are fortunate enough not to outlive. On the long run, after all, we've had these crises--I don't know how many times in the last hundred years--not only we but every country. What one lived through in that case was for America a very unusual collapse in its depth and its breadth. A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
Ferris: I think that's so true.
Miller: It leaves one with a feeling of expectation that the thing can go down, but also with a certain pleasure, that it hadn't gone down yet.
Ferris: What is it about father-son relationships that provides such good material?
Miller: The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships, you know. So this goes back.
Ferris: It is nothing new.
Miller: It is absolutely nothing new. This is an old story. I didn't invent it and I'm sure it will happen again and again.
Ferris: Three plays are usually named as the great works of the early twentieth century--your Death of a Salesman, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. I heard that after you saw Streetcar, you rewrote the play you were working on at the time, Inside of His Head, and that turned into Death of a Salesman. What did you see in Streetcar that changed your vision of your own play?
Miller: Actually, Salesman was practically written by the time I saw Streetcar. What it did was to validate the use of language the way Salesman uses language. People have forgotten that, thank God, that Willie Loman isn't talking street talk; Willie Loman's talk is very formed and formal, very often. It's almost Victorian. That was the decision I made: to lift him into the area where one could deal with his ideas and his feelings and make them applicable to the whole human race. I'm using slang in the play and different kinds of speech, but it is basically a formed, very aware use of the English language. Of course, Tennessee was similarly a fundamentally formal writer, and he was not trying to write the way people speak on the street. So it had a relationship.
Ferris: What about O'Neill? Did he influence your work? Did other playwrights?
Miller: He really didn't. When I started seriously writing in the late forties, he had come to a hiatus in his writing. He hadn't been writing or hadn't at least been producing or publishing plays for some years. His vantage point was basically religious rather than personal at that time. I'm speaking now of the late thirties and up to the end of the forties and early fifties. What certainly was a force was his dedication and his integrity. Those were maybe more important than anything else because I don't have to tell you that the spirit of Broadway is always vulgar, it's always a show shop, it's always the same thing. It never changes. To try to impose upon it something with a longer vision is very difficult. These plays usually fail the first time around and are rejected, if not worse. You need strong teeth and to hold on like a bulldog, and that was a great example.
Ferris: Is there something coming out of theater right now that is setting standards the way those three plays did in their day?
Miller: If there is, I don't know about it. I don't go to the theater all that much, but I do go where there seems to be something of value. I'm not aware of anything at the moment, but that doesn't mean there isn't. It's simply I don't see enough to make an overall judgment.
Ferris: In our society of sound bites and short attention spans, is theater anachronistic?
Miller: Not at all, not at all. No, it isn't by any means. Quite obviously, there is an enormous audience still there. For all I know, it's bigger than it's been in the past years. Death of a Salesman just finished a national tour, and there was no problem getting an audience. There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York, of course. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream. It leaves most theater at the mercy of the market, and that doesn't always reflect what's valuable. So, there you are.
Ferris: What would you like to see in theater today?
Miller: Good stuff. There is no definition for these things. Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
Ferris: In your life, you've often taken a very visible stand for what you believe in, whether it was refusing to name names at the House Un-American Activities Committee or doing advocacy against censorship. What is the artist's role in political life?
Miller: I would hope that he would just be a good--if I may use that corny old phrase--a good citizen. People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way. I wouldn't lay it down as a rule that an artist has to do anything he doesn't feel like doing, but sometimes there are issues. For example, censorship is of immediate importance to us. They should be taking positions on that and any number of issues that are very close to us, for example, whether or not the humanities are financed, and financed sufficiently, and how they are administered. All that is political policy, but it certainly affects the arts.
Ferris: Do you see a public life having an impact on your creative life?
Miller: In a way, sure. You gain a lot of different kinds of experience that way, and it's not bad to take a cold bath in a public pool occasionally. It's hard to trace it, but you become more and more aware of what things mean to people.
Ferris: When you took Death of a Salesman to China in 1983, were there any surprises?
Miller: There were a number. I wrote a book called The Salesman in Beijing, a daily diary of what was happening during the course of that production.
Ferris: The cultures seem so different, one wonders how Chinese audiences reacted to what seems to be a very American story.
Miller: It is an American story, but its applications are pretty wide. It doesn't really matter where it's played. Of course, it's not played as much as The Crucible. But it's played enough around the world, and it doesn't seem to matter where it is.
Ferris: Although Death of a Salesman got rave reviews the first night, that was not so with The Crucible, though it went on to great success around the world. You write about colleagues walking out of the theater the night The Crucible was premiered and not even speaking to you. What was it like to witness that?
Miller: It was very discouraging. At the same time, I felt a certain happiness that the play had dealt with the issue that everybody was worried about privately, and that I had brought it to the surface. There is an old rule of psychology that if something doesn't meet resistance, it is probably not true.
I knew The Crucible was what it was. I withstood the coldness at the moment, but it certainly wasn't comfortable. But I have the ability to slough things off when they get too tough.
Ferris: I want to thank you for taking the time from your writing to do this interview. It has been a pleasure talking with you.
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There have been no shortages of rumors when it comes to what Google will unveil at its Android event scheduled for this coming Monday. At this point we're expecting lowered prices on the Nexus 7, a new 3G enabled Nexus 7, the LG Nexus 4 and quite possibly a 10-inch tablet manufactured by Samsung known only as the Nexus 10. Today, we got our first real solid leak on the Nexus 10 in the form of a quick start guide from Korean site Seeko.
According to the quick start guide, the Nexus 10 will look nothing like the Nexus 7 and more like the Galaxy Note 10.1. Which doesn't bode well for build quality. The design renders in the book seem to indicate a more rounded slab, with some sort of strip across the back where the camera is housed. There's also a Nexus logo that looks identical to the one on the Nexus 7, and the one rumored to grace the back of the Nexus 4, as well as a Samsung logo.
Unfortunately the quick start guide doesn't tell us anything specs wise (no mention of that 2560×1600 display), but it does show that the Nexus 10 will feature a micro USB port, micro HDMI port, charging port, headphone jack, front- and rear-facing cameras and a notification LED.
There's no way to tell if this Nexus 10 quick start guide is real or not, but if a 10-inch tablet is set to be revealed by Google this coming Monday, it would make sense for them to already be in production. Still, don't take this as fact quite yet. If it is real, we will most definitely be buying one. How about you?


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Let's hearken back to the early days of email.
You dial up. You listen to the squeaky scratchy noises. You wait for the AOL man to say "Welcome!" You wait to see if he's finished his greeting, or if he's simply pausing before telling you the exciting news: "You've got mail!"
These were the days when email was exciting. Each one mattered.
Fast forward to now. Email is ubiquitous. If you have your own website and domain name, you can open up your computer in the morning and find 198 new emails. Most of them spam.
This week alone, even with my spam filters working like crazy, hundreds of spam email got through.
What if we sat down, opened each one of them, took them very seriously, and even spent time clicking through the links? What if we actually believed these emails?
If that were the case, here's a fraction of what I would've believed this week (and I am making none of this up):
• that I can get a genuine (yes, genuine!) university degree in 6 weeks.
• that my penis needs updating.
• that there are major errors and breaches in my NatWest, SunTrust and Halifax bank accounts, and I no longer have access to these accounts I never knew I had.
• that I am inadequate and can choose not to be inadequate anymore and that Viagra could help with my feelings of inadequacy.
• that my website looks good but my traffic sucks.
• that nothing impresses business colleagues more than a classic Chanel strapped around my wrist.
• that Mrs. Roesel Kunie's late husband left her $24 million, but she has no children to give it to, and she's got cancer and she wants to give this money to me. (Oh, and I am to trust in the Lord.)
• that I can boost my confidence with a larger organ. (No mention of the size of my piano or guitar.)
• that many many nice girls are bored tonight and would like to chat with me.
• that es gibt keinen einzigen Grund, auf einen Schuhputzautomaten zu verzichten!
As you can see, it was quite a week for me. And that's only a small snapshot.
Of course, I do not click on any of the links. I do what we all do…
I hit delete as fast as I can.
Okay. So, we all get spam. We all ignore it. It continues to come. So what?
Well, ponder something here.
Let's hearken (yes, we're doing that again) back to the early days of thoughts – say, when you were two or three. A thought was a simple thing. ("You've got thoughts!") A thought here. A thought there.
"I like dad."
"That is mine."
"I want the earring on her ear to be in my fist right now."
As you got older, however, your mind became like Mrs. Roesel Kunie, the nice girls who are bored, Viagra, and the luxury watch warehouse.
In other words, your mind became a spammer. It began to generate thoughts constantly.
And admit it. You encouraged it.
You gave attention to those thoughts. You took them seriously. You've clicked those links every time. And your mind – being your mind – convinced you that the thoughts were the truth. It kept churning out the thoughts, and you kept clicking the links, and now the spam filters can't be updated fast enough.
Here's how mind spam works:
You're driving home after a party. It was a great party, and you're happy inside.
Bink! Your mind spams you. ("You've got mail!")
The spam subject heading is: "You've always been a moron. Here's how…"
You're curious. ("I am?! Do tell!") You click.
The body of the spam is: "You know, that woman named Rachel seemed to avoid you after you made that stupid remark to her."
Rather than rolling your eyes and hitting delete, you do the very thing your mind wants you to do. You click the link! You pore over the details of that spam thought. And before you know it, you've entered the actual website of that thought. (www.101reasonsyou'reamoron.com.)
Now you're in trouble. You begin clicking links like a madman. You've followed that spam and are now putting that whole story into a shopping cart and clicking BUY! Before you know it, you feel awful. And you believe all of that mind spam like it's the truth.
Probably your mind spam takes an angle that's just right for you. Maybe yours is a thought like, "I'm going to end up broke and in pain." Or, "The Republicans have ruined everything." Or, "I've failed before, so now I have to hold on tight to what I've got so nothing bad will happen again."
No matter what the thought, it's just that: a thought. You can believe it. Or not.
Should you bombard your mind spam with affirmations? Should you try to smile and pretend your mind doesn't do this kind of thing? Should you try to clean up all of your thoughts so that they don't happen ever again?
Well, you can work on that stuff, sure. But the mind will keep churning it out. And my advice is this:
When mind spam happens, do exactly what you do when email spam happens.
See it as the spam it is. Roll your eyes. Click "delete."
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Ice Cream Wars
Can New York City truly claim America's first ice cream parlor? Did a Philadelphia housewife invent the first hand-crank ice cream freezer? And who was really behind the invention of the ice cream cone? Get the real "scoop" on the history of ice cream in our history quiz!
Recording Experiences with First Graders
Can young students take ownership of their learning? Watch as students in Jennifer Orr's class go on a field trip and document their experience with the use of digital cameras. Back in the classroom, they work collaboratively to organize the images and then record personal narratives about the experience. View here.
Voki is a free digital tool that invites students to design their own historical, modern day, or fictional avatars that can speak. Students can have their avatars role play, reenact a historical speech, hold debates, or conduct a virtual town hall with characters across time periods. Learn more.
Bridging the Gap Between Ancient and Modern Democracies
What are students supposed to think when their teacher starts talking about Athenian democracy and the Declaration of Independence in the same sentence? Explore ideas for bringing the concept of democracy across time and space so that students can better understand the connection. Read more.
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Wonder how to use art collections when studying history? Watch as the National Portrait Gallery's Briana Zavadil White introduces TAH teachers to 19th-century portraits and invites the group to ask questions and form hypotheses. Zavadil White models techniques that teachers can take back into their own classrooms. View here.


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Good Charity Inc explains Amber Alert fiasco in Kansas
May 16th, 2013 by Brian Maiorana
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OTTAWA COUNTY, KS (KCTV) -The Franklin County Sheriff's Office and Kansas Bureau of Investigations are blaming each other as to why no Amber Alert has been issued for the daughter of a murdered woman.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has rejected Franklin County's request for an Amber Alert to be issued for 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey.
An agency spokesman said KBI would have issued one on Monday during those crucial hours after the three bodies were found, but said it's too late to do so now.
Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards contends that the case did not meet the Amber Alert criteria on Monday, but should now. He said he is doing everything he can to get KBI to issue an Amber Alert.
The two agencies also disagree over whether a man is in custody in connection with the slaying of Lana-Leigh's mother and two other men. In a news release, KBI said a suspect is in custody while Richards repeatedly said a person of interest is being questioned but no one is in custody in connection with the slaying.
Those found dead this week are Kaylie Bailey, 21, her boyfriend, Andrew Stout, 30, and his roommate, Steven Eugene White, 31.
Kaylie Bailey and her daughter were last seen on May 1 when they were en route to Stout's farm. He was supposed to watch the child while Kaylie Bailey went on to work, but she never showed up. Her father filed a missing person's report for his daughter and granddaughter on Sunday with Olathe police.
Because the mother's status was unknown, Olathe police did not issue an Amber Alert.
Lana-Leigh is 2′ tall and weighs about 30 pounds. She has light brown hair and blue eyes. The toddler and her mother were last seen en route to the farmhouse in a Corolla, which has Kansas license plate 618DAA with a tag on front saying "Shawna's toy" and duct tape on passenger side mirror.
Friends of Stout said authorities came to Stout's farmhouse on Sunday, but didn't do a detailed search and failed to find the bodies.
Three friends had gone to his farmhouse on Monday to feed the missing man's pets. That's when they smelled a horrible odor and began to explore. In a shed, they discovered a body, which the friends told KCTV5 they recognized as that of Kaylie Bailey. One woman described in vivid details seeing the person's face and eyes.
More than 40 detectives converged on the property and eventually found the two men's bodies over the course of Monday night and Tuesday morning. A search did not turn up Kaylie Bailey's daughter.
Even though the friends said they recognized Kaylie Bailey's body, Richards said that wasn't enough to say that it was her. He said that authorities could not say that was positively Kaylie Bailey until an autopsy and other tests were completed, which occurred sometime Wednesday before 1 p.m.
Richards repeatedly insisted Wednesday that Lana-Leigh's disappearance did not qualify as an Amber Alert until her mother's remains were identified.
But Kyle G. Smith, assistant attorney general for KBI, disagreed. He maintains that KBI would have issued an Amber Alert on Monday if asked.
"If we had received that request on Monday, yes, we would have absolutely done an Amber Alert," Smith said.
But it's too late now for an Amber Alert to be effective, he said.
"It's for immediate alerts, those crucial first hours after a child has been kidnapped," Smith said. "It just did not seem to fit the criteria."
KBI has asked for help from the public and the media in locating Lana-Leigh.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office faxed over a request for an Amber Alert at 3:43 p.m. Richards did not explain why this wasn't done sooner since Kaylie Bailey's family was told about her death by 1 p.m. Thursday.
KBI issued a request for assistance at 3:57 p.m.
The following statement was issued by KBI:
"A full AMBER alert was not issued primarily for two reasons:
"• The media had been actively following the case for several days now and the information, including pictures of the missing child, have been widely circulated.
"• Utilizing the Emergency Alert System (EAS) at this point to interrupt broadcasts by the media would not enhance coverage and be an improper taking of private property given the delayed request.
"Other than not utilizing the EAS system to interrupt broadcasts, all aspects of an AMBER alert are being utilized."
One difference is if an Amber Alert is issued then news outlets run a crawl and the child's picture on their screens, the alert is placed on highway signs and it's shared across the country.
KCTV5 is running the crawl as if an Amber Alert had been issued in an effort to do everything possible to get the information out and Lana home to her family.
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Hurricane Sandy's ferocity caused a wide swath of destruction in the region. But in the aftermath of chaos, there is art.
The organizers of an upcoming exhibition, "Who Has Seen The Wind," invite all amateur and professional photographers to submit their Hurricane Sandy photographs.
"The call is open," said Kathleen Reckling, director of ArtsWestchester Gallery in White Plains, which will host the exhibit in early spring.
Reckling added the gallery is accepting photographs from "anyone who went out with a camera or mobile device and captured Sandy's destruction or the community's response to it."
This, she said, extends to "everyday heroes who handed out blankets, as well as to the men and women in uniform who protected our neighborhoods and those on the cleanup crews who removed debris and downed trees."
As far as inspiration for the show, Janet Langsam, ArtsWestcher's chief executive officer, said, "My town -- Chappaqua -- was a mess after the storm. I took photographs and it occurred to me that everyone must have been out taking photographs." Langsam had just completed her weekly blog post, this one about witnessing the storm, when it occurred to her she felt conflicting emotions of "at once being captivated by its beauty and fearful of its power." She titled that posting, "Who Has Seen the Wind," which then became the jumping off point for the nascent exhibition.
Reckling stated, "Sandy was a once-in-a-lifetime event; a natural disaster the region had never before ever witnessed." While some people lost power for short period of time, others lost so much more, she said.
The exhibition will be an assemblage of individuals' stories from across the storm-ravaged area.
"We hope that in coming together to share our experiences of Sandy's destruction, as well as those of the cleanup, we can help the community heal and rebuild," Reckling said.
Photographers may submit up to five images for consideration. The name of the photographer and image title must be in the file name of submitted photographs.
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Ah keratin, most confusing and seductive of straightening treatments. There's a lot of marketing, a lot of conflicting information, and a lot of people with follicular/emotional scarring from the Great Brazilian Freakout of '09 (NEVER FORGET). Usually, we'd just run around screaming "Keratiiiiiin' like ersatz beauty-industry versions of Animal from The Muppets, but this is important, so instead we teamed up with Rudy Pena, the "Curl and DeFrizz Specialist' (great job title) at Julien Farel Salon —he does this all day, every day—for a handy straightening guide.
Here are 10 key facts about keratin ( plus a Beyoncé hair gif , because welcome to the internet):
Fact the First: WTF Is Keratin Straightening? This TF Is Keratin Straightening Your hair is made of keratin, so a keratin treatment pretty much consists of marinating yourself in even more of the stuff until it sticks (heat helps this process). It smooths out the surface of follicles and, depending on how much you use, releases curls, takes out waves, etc. It makes hair shinier and helps prevent breakage, too. It's not cheap—salons can charge anywhere from $200–$600—and it's tricky. So don't grab the first Groupon you see.Fact the First: WTF Is Keratin Straightening? This TF Is Keratin Straightening
Fact 2: Keratin Treatments, Unlike Face Tattoos, Aren't Permanent Keratin washes out eventually. Most treatments last about eight weeks, but it could be up to six months. Obviously, this is something you want to ask about beforehand unless you enjoy literally any kind of surprise, even like "Surprise! Your hair is straight for half a year!"Fact 2: Keratin Treatments, Unlike Face Tattoos, Aren't Permanent
Fact 3: Keratin Straighteners Shouldn't Be Carcinogenic If you're freaked out by the low level of formaldehyde that's produced during classic keratin treatments, be direct when you make your appointment and say you'll only accept formaldehyde-free services (there are a lot of new options). "Not only is it a more pleasant olfactory experience, it's also safer for your skin and eyes!" Pena says.Fact 3: Keratin Straighteners Shouldn't Be Carcinogenic
Fact 4: You Can Use Keratin To Get Rid Of Frizz Without Straightening Your Curls If all you want is slightly smoother texture, keratin can do that, too. Ask for a weaker formulation that won't release curls. Pena loves the Zero Frizz Quickie treatment in particular because "there's no downtime; you can wash your hair that night, and you're back to natural in six to eight weeks!" Coincidentally, Pena also created Zero Frizz Quickie, but we won't hold that against him.
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Do you know what the hardest part of having a newborn was for me 11 years ago?
A 2-year-old.
One day, I answered the corded phone in the kitchen (yes, I'm that old) and made sure my 2-year-old followed me. It was my mom, who lived more than 1,000 miles away, checking in on my chaos and her two grandchildren. My son was less than 2 months old, tucked safely in a bouncy seat in the other room.
I missed my mom a lot and hearing her voice was such a comfort. After a minute or so on the phone, I realized my 2-year-old had left the kitchen. I put my mom on hold and ran to find my busy child. I had a new baby in the house and my 2-year-old was what some might call a HANDFUL. Perhaps you know this stage?
I rounded the corner and found her leaning over her baby brother. She wasn't hitting him and I sighed in relief. She ran off as I got close. But as I turned to head back to the phone, I noticed a strange red drool coming from my baby's mouth out of the corner of my eye. My first thought was that he was bleeding.
My toddler tackled me from behind, "I share Momma!"
My baby smacked his lips and I sat in the middle of the floor and cried. I wondered how close my newborn came to choking and how close I was to shaking some sense into a 2-year-old. My mom eventually hung up.
I have chased a 2-year-old through a quiet library, screaming at the top of his lungs, both of us crying the whole way home.
I have whispered threats in the middle of the grocery store, bribing and begging my way down every aisle.
I have hung my head in shame after learning my 3-year-old educated the church nursery staff on the details of his momma's private parts.
I have packed my dinner in a to-go box because we simply couldn't make it through a meal in public with a 2 and 4-year-old.
I have hated some days and longed for the quiet house that comes with the sacred nap time hour.
And for as many challenging days I had while mothering little people, there were three times as many that were simply good. Sweet chubby hugs, chocolate kisses, little hands in mine, the brilliant moment of teaching something new, watching little minds grasp and grow, counting breaths, stroking sleepy heads, the wonder of everyday.
But this letter isn't a reminder to LOVE EVERY MINUTE and LIVE IN THE MOMENT because one day it will all be gone. You get that. You've watched your tiny bundle turn into a toddler, you've packed away little onesies and big memories and I know you know your children are a precious gift from God. But honestly, there are some moments we don't ever want to relive, there are some phases we won't miss and there are some burdens of guilt we don't need to carry.
You are normal. Yes, this season is beautiful and amazing. But it is equally hard. What you do in your boring, everyday tantrum-filled life is important. You are molding, you are shaping. You are raising children who will eventually be able to wipe themselves. God willing.
I made a lot of mistakes (and still do). I was too hard and too soft and too human. And I probably only did two things right: I loved my little children and I loved God and did my best to introduce and intertwine the two.
With the end of every phase, another one lurks around the corner. [We are currently in the "my-tween-son-constantly-makes-noises-and-my-teen-daughter-tells-him-what-to-do" phase. My mother-in-law warned these stages could last for years. Sweet mercy.] As your children get older, you will go from physical exhaustion to emotional weariness, and like it or love it not, you will get there one preschool day at a time.
Today, I have kids who are simply lovely. They are smart and funny. They care about others and are growing in grace. They can also point out a mullet a mile away, create an argument out of thin air and sometimes, they make fun of grown women who wear puppy sweaters, so clearly, my work isn't done.
Yesterday, my day was full of sarcastic laughter with my 11- and 13-year-olds. We had intimate conversations about good stuff and mature discussions about current events. I realized how much they have taught me about motherhood and life. From their preschool days, they taught me humility and how to lay down my pride, they reminded me life isn't always in my control and to trust God more. And today, they teach me to let go a little more, to trust them, to laugh, to be ready for deep conversations, and mostly to be present.
So, momma of a preschooler or two, you are establishing routine, building character, teaching right from wrong. You are tired. Your days are long. But your everyday hard work is purposeful and one day, you will be my age in a quiet house. Your car will be filled with stinky tween boys and giggling teen girls. And you'll remember these preschool days... and smile. And possibly high five someone that you made it.
Until the next phase hits.
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Kali comes home: Special parade in her honor set for 10:35 a.m. Thursday
Kali Hardig has defied medical odds and is being discharged today from Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock.
The 12-year-old Benton girl is reported to be the third person in the world to survive the brain-eating amoeba that caused her to become ill July 19 following an outing at a Little Rock water park.
The condition she suffered is known as primary amoebic memingoencephalitis. A then-experimental drug is credited with killing the amoeba.
Kali's miraculous recovery is being celebrated locally with a parade involving two schools in the Benton district.
The procession is scheduled to begin at 10:35 a.m. on Smithers Drive at Howard Perrin Elementary School, where Kali previously was a student. The parade then will proceed to Benton Middle School, where Kali was scheduled to begin the fall term in August.
More details are found in today's edition of The Saline Courier.


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New smartphone apps are a dime a dozen but few can have a life changing — or life saving — impact. But the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District outside San Francisco has created an app that does just that. Aptly named "Fire Department," the application empowers iPhone users to provide life-saving assistance to someone suffering from a sudden heart attack. Any user who indicated that he knows CPR will be notified if someone nearby is having a heart attack and needs help.
When you first launch the app, it asks if you're trained in CPR and would be willing to help a stranger in an emergency. Once you accept this, the application uses the iPhone's GPS technology to find your location. The next time a 911 dispatcher receives a call that an emergency is happening near you, you receive a notification saying where help is needed and where the closest automated external defibrillator (AED) is located.
"Providing actionable, real-time information during a sudden cardiac arrest emergency, including mapping the victim and rescuer locations, along with the nearest AED locations is the quintessential use of GPS technology on a mobile phone today," San Ramon Fire Chief Richard Price said in a press release.
The application, which has existed as a less sophisticated version for some time, is being developed by interns at Northern Kentucky University's Center for Applied Informatics, and Workday is helping to develop the app for other platforms. The app could work very well in San Ramon, mainly because the city's fire department is more advanced than many others across the country. The department has a very detailed list of AED locations, like "at the Customer Service counter in Home Depot," while many regions have no list at all or just vaguely list the location.
The app was officially unveiled yesterday, but the fire department has been testing it with San Ramon's 22,000 iPhone users for the past six months. More than test 600,000 notifications have been sent, but there is no data yet about the app's effectiveness and success rate. Still, the potential is extremely exciting.
Nearly 300,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest each year in the U.S. The survival rate is less than eight percent and brain death begins in just four to six minutes. Even the best EMS in the country have response times that exceed seven minutes. Bystander CPR and the early use of an AED are extremely critical to a victim's survival. This app strengthens the connection between bystanders and victims, ultimately increasing the chances of survival. While it may not necessarily be "green design," it's most definitely smart design.
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Ewan McGregor and fellow actor/pal Charley Boorman like hanging out together on motorcycles, an itch they previously scratched in "Long Way Round," a book and series chronicling their round-the-world trip from London to New York. This time, their sojourn will take them the length of Africa, and based on the nuts-and-bolts premiere, it promises to be a worthwhile ride — part travelogue, part manly bonding, part "The Amazing Race" minus the staged competition. With another book-TV pairing tied to this adventure, the pair slickly underwrite a personal passion by transforming it into a mini-franchise.
Mostly, the series benefits from an easy-going authenticity. McGregor and Boorman have the kind of rapport that's hard to fake as they spend 85 days traversing 15,000 grueling miles. The kicker is that Africa and its unstable governments introduce all sorts of complications to the planning, among them securing visas from Libya.
The expedition hits other snags even before the plane departs, and Boorman (the son of director John Boorman) clearly isn't thrilled about McGregor's decision to invite his wife — Eve Mavrakis, a biking novice — to accompany them for part of the journey. Think of the "Star Wars" star as the killjoy who extends a last-minute invite to the missus on a boys' weekend to Vegas.
Invariably, there's considerable self-absorption wrapped up in this daredevil exercise/vanity project, including the obsessing over minor details as directors David Alexanian and Russ Malkin incorporate the filmmaking process into the show. That said, at least this is the increasingly rare celeb-reality series motivated by a larger activity than, say, simply evading the paparazzi.
Fox Reality is clearly happy to draft on McGregor's renown ("Hey, we got Obi-wan doing TV on our piddling cable channel!"), but "Long Way Down" — which has already aired in the U.K. — manages to play in the "Rich boys and their oversized toys" sandbox and still be entertaining. And based on previews of future episodes, there will be plenty of sand to go around.


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How Scary is the Housing Affordability Index?
August 29, 2016
Some industry pundits are saying that the housing market may be heading for a slowdown. One of the data points they use is the falling numbers of the Housing Affordability Index, as reported by the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
Here is how NAR defines the index:
"The Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national level based on the most recent price and income data."
Basically, a value of 100 means a family earning the median income earns enough to qualify for a mortgage on a median priced home, based on the price and mortgage interest rates at the time. Anything above 100 means the family has more than enough to qualify.
The higher the index the easier it is to afford a home.
Why the concern?
The index has been declining over the last several years as home values increased. Some are concerned that too many buyers could be priced out of the market. Here is a snapshot of the index since 2009:
But, wait a minute…
Though the index has decreased over the last four years, we must realize that at that time there was an overabundance of housing inventory and as many as one out of three listings was a distressed property (foreclosure or short sale). All prices dropped dramatically and distressed properties sold at major discounts. Then, mortgage rates fell like a rock.
The market is recovering and values are coming back nicely. That has caused the index to fall.
However, let's remove the crisis years and look at the current index as compared to the index from 1990 – 2008. We can see that, even though prices have increased, historically low mortgage rates have put the index in a better position than every year for the nineteen years prior to the crash.
Bottom Line
The Housing Affordability Index is in great shape and should not be seen as a challenge to the real estate market's continued recovery.
Article provided courtesy of Keeping Current Matters.
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Robin Thicke had a fling with a former child star who grew up to become quite the sex bomb.
No � not the twerker.
In Touch magazine reported that Thicke had a thing with Britney Spears 10 years ago, when she was rebounding from Justin Timberlake.
�The pair had a fling in 2003, when Britney was at the top of her game and Robin was trying to get recognized,� a source reportedly told the magazine. �He was trying hard to develop a reputation as a hot, young singer, and (Britney) was the biggest thing in show business.�
The pair met while collaborating on a project that was never released and �started hooking up,� the source said.
How did we go a whole decade without knowing this? They�must have been meeting up at Andy Kaufman�s house.
Maybe it was Thicke who sent Spears off the rails. Because it wasn�t long afterward, in January 2004, that Spears� free-fall of looniness began when she went to Las Vegas and married her old pal Jason Alexander. Not that Jason Alexander.
In Touch reported Thicke continued his long-term relationship with high school sweetheart Paula Patton. Thicke�s reps are denying the whole thing.


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- Year:
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- Length:
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- Engine/Fuel Type:
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- Built for high latitude sailing as well as comfortable Mediterranean cruising.
- Five cabins sleeping twelve with four heads(two pilot berths in aft cabin if desired).
- Deliverable next summer-2015
- Full customization possible, unlimited options.
- Two Volvo D3 110 HP for maximum maneuverability and economy.
- Spacious main salon open to galley below or separate-owner's choice.
- Large deck and cockpit for outside use.
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LWL: 59 ft 3 in
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Displacement: 74000 lbs
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Total Power: 110 HP
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The Hutchinson County Soccer Association has teamed up to host the week-long "British Soccer Camp" during the week of 7/18/11 – 7/22/11 at The Soccer Fields, Veta Street, Borger, TX, 79007.The camp will run Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Challenger's team of 1,000 British soccer coaches flown to the USA exclusively to work on these programs. Challenger Sports will hold over 3,000 British Soccer camps this summer and will coach over 120,000 players between the ages of 3 and 19. The British Soccer Camp is more than a week of drills and skills. In addition to taking part in a daily regimen of Foot-skills (part of the new 1,000 touches curriculum), Technical, Tactical practices & Daily Tournament play, Challenger has partnered with the NAIA to help educate players in lessons on Respect, Responsibility, Integrity, Leadership and Sportsmanship.There will also be a FREE Promotional Night for players in the community to come and try the British Soccer experience before they sign-up. Thursday 7th April 2011Soccer Fields, Veta Street, Borger, TX 79007Ages 3-4 5-5.45pmAges 5-6 5.45-6.30pmAges 7-10 6.30-7.30pmAges 11+ 7.30-8.30pmTo register for the free promotional event please email firstname.lastname@example.com stating Player Name, Age and session they will be attending


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While trolling for stories for one of my other columns, I came across a review of a book about what your typical North American would consider the world's grosses foods. The book is called "Yuck! The Things People Eat," by Neil Setchfield, it features over 100 of things like boiled sheep's head in glorious color, and I haven't read it yet but I kind of want to go find it now. However, one of the foods mentioned just sounded fake. "The Korean penis fish is considered a culinary delight in Korea, China and Japan," the review notes, and, well, I needed to confirm that. Sure enough:
I am, apparently, the last person on the Internet to find out about this. I liked things better before I did.
Maybe one society's delicacy is another's, um, Korean penis fish. But that can't taste good enough to overcome the ew factor. And neither can stir-fried tarantulas.


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Greenway success relies on teamwork
If you want to see what the Niagara River Greenway could become, take a look at what's happened in the Hudson River Valley in the 20 years since greenway efforts began there.
Main Streets have been linked to the river. Businesses that outfit tourists have proliferated. Hotels have prospered, and this year, the Hudson Valley landed on National Geographic's list of 20 best trips, along with Marseille, the Great Bear Rainforest and Malawi.
"Promoting the Hudson River as a recreational resource has tremendous impact on the region's tourism economy," said Mark Castiglione, who heads the Hudson River Valley Greenway. "It's not just about outfitters, but it's about the people who are coming here for that experience, and that helps hotels, it helps restaurants, and it helps all those kinds of businesses that support tourism in our region."
So imagine what could happen here, where internationally known waterfalls already draw millions to the Niagara River and where $9 million a year has been dedicated to greenway projects for the next 44 years.
The Hudson River Valley has been able to transform itself, not because it had millions of dollars for the greenway, as we have here, but by creating incentives for dozens of communities to work together toward similar goals.
"Many of those communities that border the Hudson River have now – not taken and turned their backs on the river – but they're using the river as the front door to economic development," said Carmella Mantello, former Hudson River Greenway executive director.
Here, in Erie and Niagara counties, a $450 million dedicated funding stream from a settlement with the Niagara Power Project gives us a leg up on what the Hudson River Valley had when it first set out on the greenway path.
But we're on the verge of wasting that tremendous opportunity.
The money could have the power to transform the communities along the Niagara River. Or we can squander it on narrow thinking and parochial projects.
More than $46 million has been allocated in the six years since the money started flowing to create the Niagara River Greenway, but a recent review by the Partnership for the Public Good found that little more than half of the projects live up to the original vision of creating a system of linked "parks, trails and conservation areas" along the Niagara River.
A few projects have been deemed "inconsistent" with that vision but still got funded.
It's the same old mentality: Don't tell us what to do with our money.
The "fractured system" for approving projects and spending money, the report found, has impeded efforts to develop the Niagara River Greenway "as a unified system rather than a miscellaneous collection of projects."
Mantello, who led the Hudson River Valley Greenway, attributes its success to the willingness of dozens of communities in 14 counties to work together.
"If those regional partnerships aren't happening, not just at the local level, but at the state and local level, then the whole concept of the greenway goes out the door," Mantello said.
Rarely have we had the right mix of money and opportunity to bring major change to the region. If only a few communities weren't so intent on hacking away at their own isolated trail.
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Julie Phelps, 52
Julie Ann Phelps was born Aug. 21, 1958, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Charles and Doris Goodner. Her family moved from Idaho back to Nebraska, living in various cities until 1972, when they made Merna their permanent home. She graduated from Anselmo-Merna High School in 1977, and was wed in that same year. Julie proceeded to have four children over the next eight years. After divorcing in 1990, Julie was remarried to Irvin Phelps in 1994. The family lived for a short time in Anselmo, then moved to the Phelps' family farm just North of Anselmo. Julie loved being outdoors and enjoyed the country living. Julie is survived by her husband, Irvin Phelps; her siblings, Dodie (Ron) Worm of Taylor, Kent (Cheri) Goodner of Broken Bow, Brian Goodner of North Platte; her four children, Travis (Heidi) Hunt of Broken Bow, Jackie Hunt of Broken Bow, Jennifer (Derek) Bristol of Cozad, Trenton (Nikia) Hunt of Broken Bow; and Irvin's three children, Brittany (Greg) Phillips of Denver, Colo., Lindsey (Tyler) Hulme of Cairo, and Taylor Phelps of Boelus. She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Doris Goodner, and father-in-law, Leland Phelps. Funeral services were held at Govier Brother Mortuary Monday, Jan. 24, 2011.


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* News Corp buys 49 percent stake in Yankees TV channel
* LA Dodgers sports rights could be next big media deal
* Tennis Channel, Altitude, New England Sports Network could be targets
* DirecTV pays $3.40 per subscriber for Time Warner Cable SportsNet
* Overheated bidding market emerges for local sports rights
By Ronald Grover and Liana B. Baker
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - News Corp's investment in the New York Yankees baseball channel YES Network illustrates the new normal in media: multibillion dollar deals, once reserved for rights to carry the Olympics or NFL football, now apply to regional sports channels as well.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox Sports said on Tuesday that it will buy a 49 percent stake in YES, valuing the local sports network around $3 billion. That is 50 percent more than the $2 billion paid for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise by a group led by private equity firm Guggenheim Partners six months ago.
While Walt Disney Co's ESPN remains the giant in the marketplace, with cable rights for many major sporting events sewn up for years, other media conglomerates are building regional sports channels that show games from local colleges and professional teams that ESPN or other national channels do not carry.
Disney's rivals are eyeing the lucrative $5.15 monthly subscription fee that ESPN can command for each customer, according to media consultant SNL Kagan, the highest among cable channels. Fox Sports North, the most lucrative of the 12 Fox regional sports channels tracked by SNL, collects $3.68 a month for each subscriber.
"The problem is that there just aren't many more high-profile sports (rights) out there," said former NBA Television and New Media Ventures President Ed Desser, whose Los Angeles-based consultancy advises on sports rights deals. "Most of them are spoken for, so when one comes up, there's the possibility of an overheated bidding market."
The YES deal follows Time Warner Cable Inc's acquisition last year of the rights to carry the Los Angeles Lakers basketball games for the next 20 years for $3 billion.
Time Warner's LA-based SportsNet said it intends to bid on a contract to carry Los Angeles Dodgers' games if Fox Sports cannot reach an agreement to extend its contract during an exclusive negotiating period that ends in a few weeks. That TV deal is expected to cost $3 billion or more, industry experts said.
The scramble for regional sports networks reflects the broader competition playing out in the national and international sports markets as well.
On the national level, Fox and Turner Broadcasting signed an eight-year broadcast deal with Major League Baseball worth up to $7.4 billion in October. And in early November, Comcast Corp's NBC won the rights to air England's Premier League soccer, reportedly offering three times more than what Fox had been paying.
Media companies justify the sharply higher sports costs by charging cable and satellite operators more to carry the channels, arguing that local teams have rabid followings and viewers are more likely to watch games live than record them on DVRs for viewing later.
In new contract talks, Fox plans to negotiate higher carriage fees for YES, which currently charges $2.99 a month per subscriber, a source told Reuters. Some of YES's biggest carriage agreements expire in the next 18 months, including ones with Time Warner Cable and Comcast, according to the source.
But there are limits to fee increases. Despite holding the Lakers' broadcast rights, Time Warner Cable was unable to get satellite operator DirecTV, the largest pay-TV operator in Los Angeles, to pay the $3.95 monthly charge it demanded for every subscriber. DirecTV agreed to pay an average of only $3.40 per subscriber, said two people with knowledge of the deal.
A DirecTV spokesman declined to comment, as did a Time Warner spokeswoman.
Rumors are rife about other potentially large deals on the horizon.
SportsCorp Ltd president Marc Ganis, who advised the Yankees in the past on several issues, said he heard the New England Sports Network, which is owned by baseball's Boston Red Sox and the Boston Bruins hockey franchise, could be up for sale, along with the Red Sox franchise. Another potential target could be Altitude Sports & Entertainment, which provides Colorado Rockies and Denver Nuggets games to 3.1 million homes, he said.
A spokeswoman for the Red Sox, however, said its owner John Henry is not looking to sell the team or "any part of Fenway Sports Group including NESN." And Jim Martin, chief executive of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which owns Altitude along with several Colorado sports teams, said the company was not interested in selling.
Fox, Comcast and Time Warner Cable are potential bidders for anything that comes on the market, aiming to chip away at ESPN's dominance. Comcast runs the 24-hour NBC Sports Network and has 13 regional channels, according to SEC filings. Fox, which has 20 regional channels, is expected to launch its own national sports network next year.
"Everyone is either making a serious run at competing against ESPN, or taking a serious look at making a serious run," said former Viacom Inc and Universal Studios CEO Frank Biondi, who is a board member and investor in the Tennis Channel.
ESPN is estimated to generate more than $8 billion a year in fees and ad sales, according to SNL Kagan. Bernstein Research valued ESPN at $66 billion on Tuesday, which would be equivalent to three quarters of Disney's market value of $87 billion.
Biondi said the Tennis Channel would likely be up for sale down the road.